You know what is Monologue, right? It is a basic blogging engine built as a Rails mountable engine and has few dependencies to make it easy to embed in an already existing Rails app. You can also use it in a brand new Rails app! It has few features but it is easy to extend.

there is now a sidebar: you can put the latest posts, tweets or whatever you want! Kinda simple system but efficient enough for now. Included: tag cloud, categories (tag), latest posts and tweets.

front page articles are now more cleverly truncated

a few Deface hooks (data-monologue attribute) were added to the admin layout (for the menu)

update admin UI with newest Twitter Boostrap (v2.1.1)

visual look has been slightly updated (Hey, designers, want to help on Monologue next design? You're "hired"!)Preview

add support for Twitter Cards (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards)

deprecate Ruby 1.8 (you should really upgrade, 2.0 is about to get real and Rails 4 won't run on Ruby 1.8)

Romanian translations were added, thanks to mixandgo. You can now use Monologue in either French, English or Romanian!

lot of bug fixed

Install Monologue today:

gem"monologue","~> 0.2.0"

monologue-markdown 0.2.0

What is monologue-markdown? A simple extension replacing the default WYSIWYG editor from Monologue by EpicEditor which will let you write Markdown instead! (Screenshots: 1, 2, 3). Trying it adopting it.

Install monologue-markdown today:

gem"monologue-markdown","~> 0.2.0"

Want to build an extension?

Just take a look at monologue-markdown's source code and see how to do it, after all, it's only a Rails app itself (or engine, depending on what you need the extension to do).